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Author: hszmv1

Jul 3rd 2017 at 4:19:13 AM

Please Please Please let the page quote be "There is No Spoon" from the Matrix!

Also, if the work is taking the concept as less than serious, expect the bender of the Spoon to be a Uri Geller send up.  The man in the page image was voiced in a similar fashion to Geller in the English dub and Pokemon was even sued by Geller after he claimed they were unauthorized likenesses of him (the Japanese name of Kadabra is rendered quite similer to Geller's name in Japanese).  The suit is still on going and Kadabera has not appeared in the PokemonTradingCardGame because of the suit (and only in trading cards... Geller became aware of the similarities after Japanese fans asked him to autograph Kadabra cards, which they thought looked similar enough).

*Don't forget Alakazam's Mega Evolution, which is telekinetically bending multiple spoons without any physical contact and that the game has an item called Bent Spoon which boosts Psychic attacks if a Pokemon holds it (may be exclusive to Abra line).

Real Life:

The Australian Skeptics' present the anual Bent Spoon award to "perpetrator of the most preposterous piece of paranormal or pseudoscientific piffle."  The winner must be Austrailian or made his claims in Austrilia and the trophy is "Australian Skeptics facetiously describes the trophy as a piece of gopher wood supposedly from the Noah’s Ark, upon which is affixed a spoon that was rumoured to have been used at the Last Supper. The spoon was bent by energies unknown to science and was gold-plated through an Atlantean process."  Although established in 1982 and first awarded in 1983, only one copy of the trophy exists, as "anyone wishing to acquire the trophy must remove it from our keeping by paranormal means" and no winner has yet overcome this obstacle.

* For those who want to know how it's done, the trick is to [[spoiler: apply real physical pressure to the spoon where the handle and bowl meet while misdirecting the audience's attention.  Metal spoons, despite being metal, are surprisingly mallable and prone to bending.  The performer is rellying on RealityIsUnrealistic among the audience to carry the thought that as a metal, it cannot be bent by human hands.]]